A diverse collection of movies expected to dominate at the 93rd Academy Awards
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Frances McDormand competes for another Academy Award for her stellar performance in “Nomadland.” The film’s director, Chloe Zhao, is also in line for a win.
April 25, 2021
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Best Picture:
- “Nomadland”
- “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
- “Minari”
- “The Father”
- “Judas and the Black Messiah”
- “Promising Young Woman”
- “Sound of Metal”
- “Mank”
What Liv thinks will win: “Nomadland”
What Lucy wants and thinks will win: “Nomadland”
Best Direction
- Thomas Vinterberg, “Another Round”
- David Fincher, “Mank”
- Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
- Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
- Lee Isaac Chung, “Minari”
What Liv wants and thinks will win: Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
What Lucy wants and thinks will win: Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
Best Actor:
- Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
- Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
- Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
- Gary Oldman, “Mank”
- Steven Yeun, “Minari”
Who Liv wants to win: Riz Ahmed
Who Liv thinks will win: Chadwick Boseman
Who Lucy wants and thinks will win: Chadwick Boseman
Best Actress:
- Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”
- Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman”
- Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
- Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
- Andra Day, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
Who Liv wants and thinks will win: Carey Mulligan
Who Lucy wants and thinks will win: Carey Mulligan
Best Supporting Actress:
- Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan”
- Glenn Close, “Hillbilly Elegy”
- Olivia Colman, “The Father”
- Amanda Seyfried, “Mank”
- Yuh-jung Youn, “Minari”
Who Liv wants and thinks will win: Yuh-jung Youn
Who Lucy wants to win: Maria Bakalova
Who Lucy thinks will win: Yu-jung Youn
Supporting Actor:
- Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
- Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
- Lakeith Stanfield, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
- Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”
- Leslie Odom Jr., “One Night in Miami”
Who Liv wants and thinks will win: Daniel Kaluuya
Who Lucy wants and thinks will win: Daniel Kaluuya
Best Adapted Screenplay
- “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
- “The Father”
- “Nomadland”
- “One Night in Miami”
- “The White Tiger”
Who Lucy wants to win: “One Night in Miami”
Who Lucy thinks will win: “Nomadland”
Who Liv wants and thinks will win: “Nomadland”
Best Original Screenplay
- “Judas and the Black Messiah”
- “Minari”
- “Promising Young Woman”
- “Sound of Metal”
- “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Who Lucy wants and thinks will win: “Promising Young Woman”
Who Liv wants to win: “Minari”
Who Liv thinks will win: “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Editing
- “The Father”
- “Nomadland”
- “Promising Young Woman”
- “Sound of Metal”
- “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Who Lucy wants to win: “Sound of Metal”
Who Lucy thinks will win: “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Who Liv wants and thinks will win: “Sound of Metal”
Production Design
- “The Father”
- “Mank”
- “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
- “News of the World”
- “Tenet”
Who Lucy wants and thinks will win: “Mank”
Who Liv wants to win: “The Father”
Who Liv thinks will win: “Mank”
Cinematography
- Sean Bobbitt, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
- Erik Messerschmidt, “Mank”
- Dariusz Wolski, “News of the World”
- Joshua James Richards, “Nomadland”
- Phedon Papamichael, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Who Lucy wants and thinks will win: “Nomadland”
Who Liv wants and thinks will win: “Nomadland”
